Web Design, Photography, Video & Cartooning

Q. Describe the most common types of jobs you do for your clients.

A. Start up businesses that let us begin by creating the perfect logo, advertising media, website design, bringing everything together for a maximum impact. We offer everything they would need to get noticed and start off with a bang!

Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A. Our experience and portfolio shows we are problem solvers. Clients that let us lead the way are always more pleased than the ones that try and guide us, restricting our ideas. Let us show you what we can do.

Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?

A. Years of experience working in the creative arts promoting products and businesses has given us a skill set to target what you need and the tools to get it done.

Q. What do you like most about your job?

A. Being creative, solving problems, pleasing customers with websites, logos, publishing, photography and video, makes every day exciting.

Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A. Can you create what we need? The answer is yes, and a whole lot more they may of not thought of. For instance do they know that saturating the market in a three month period: newspapers, billboards, radio....they can get much more bang for their buck. People that see more than one instance of their logo, product, campaign, are more likely to act on it.

Q. What do you wish customers knew about you or your profession?

A. With over 35 years in the creative commercial art graphics and design of products, games, prints, and more we have the experience that very few others can offer. With such clients as: Goodyear, Microsoft, Valvoline, Mac Tools, Now Comics and many more....we can help you develop the feel, and look your company or product deserves.

Q. Tell us about a recent job you did that you are particularly proud of.

A. I was contacted by the company Clover Coffee Company. I'd just read about them in Wired magazine so knew they were a huge client. I was asked to design and draw art for a t-shirt for their annual, muti-company, event/picnic. I was told the image must contain various logos, a dog and machinery all working together in one image. I designed a dog in a business suit having coffee wearing a party hat with the machines and graffiti flying around behind him. The logos were on the products and along the left edge and on the suit lapel, etc....they loved it!

Q. Do you do any sort of continuing education to stay up on the latest developments in your field?

A. Since college I've never stopped learning. Books, magazines, videos, anything I can get my hands on to learn more and more about whatever creative process I'm wanting to dive into. Currently I'm a member of 4 MeetUp groups in my area, shooting portraits of models in studio lighting setups, and outdoor settings. I'm getting lots of practice and praise from the others in the groups and learning from them. Currently setting up my own photo studio.

Q. Describe your most recent project, what it involved, how much it cost, and how long it took.

A. My name was forwarded to a client by a colleague that was too busy to take on the project themselves. It involved digitally coloring 65 images in one week. They were of varying complexity and time. The job was accomplished on time, and they thanked the other colleague for recommending me. The job paid from $5 to $85 per image and totaled over $2,000 at completion. They just contacted me to start on a new, similar, 200 image project.

Q. If you were advising someone who wanted to get into your profession, what would you suggest?

A. Take all the classes you can in art, design, photography and video production. Read all the books you can get your hands on. Study other companies works, advertising you see in magazines, on TV, radio and billboards. Develop an eye for what is going to catch the attention in an image that can push your work ahead of the others. Never stop drawing, shooting photos/video and creating.

Q. Write your own question and answer it.

A. What skills do you have in publishing?

I've been putting out graphic novels and comics with my own company Fan-Atic Press since 1984. I've taken on book publishing work, designing and creating the covers, logos, and laying out the interior pages. I've done this for novels, paperbacks, journals, graphic novels and comic books. Other publishers have hired me to assemble their books for them. I have extensive experience with Adobe InDesign and with working in software such as what Blurb.com offers for assembling books through them. I've worked with many printers and can give them what they need.